governmentese

You'll note that the above is internal, for government employees, most or all of whom would be well versed in the use of 'governmentese'.

Ryan Tomayko 2009

You'll note that the above is internal, for government employees, most or all of whom would be well versed in the use of 'governmentese'.

Ryan Tomayko fivethirtyeight.com 2009

An example of how the Plain Language Award cleaned up 'governmentese' (intentionally obfuscated languge):

Ryan Tomayko fivethirtyeight.com 2009

An example of how the Plain Language Award cleaned up 'governmentese' (intentionally obfuscated languge):

Ryan Tomayko 2009

The banality of political correctness, the attenuation of meaning in the argot of legalese/computere/governmentese newspeak attenuates all feeling and meaning.

One Book, One Tweet « Third Point of Singularity 2010

Much government web content is written in “governmentese” instead of plain language.

Putting Citizens First: Transforming Online Govt White Paper 2008

Meanwhile, the government issued elaborate instructions written in dense governmentese regarding what behavior was allowed, what was prohibited, these impossible-to-follow regulations enforced arbitrarily, keeping the people perpetually in violation of something.

Our American King David Lozell martin 2007

Meanwhile, the government issued elaborate instructions written in dense governmentese regarding what behavior was allowed, what was prohibited, these impossible-to-follow regulations enforced arbitrarily, keeping the people perpetually in violation of something.

Our American King David Lozell martin 2007

Meanwhile, the government issued elaborate instructions written in dense governmentese regarding what behavior was allowed, what was prohibited, these impossible-to-follow regulations enforced arbitrarily, keeping the people perpetually in violation of something.

Our American King David Lozell martin 2007

His infamy was, at least to some degree, a creation of the U.S. government, whose spokesmen seized on him as the visible face of Al Qaeda in Iraq -- and living proof that the war in Iraq was the main battlefield in the grander global war on terror (GWOT, in governmentese).

Death of a Terrorist 2007